Jacquard Screen Printing Inks

These professional, permanent screen printing inks can be used on a wide variety of porous and non-porous surfaces, including vinyl, metal, clay, leather, and natural and synthetic fabric and paper. Ideal for commercial applications, they have a soft hand and a long open time, giving the user more time to work with individual colors.

Jacquard Screen Printing Inks are extremely lightfast with great resolution, and their opacity is unparalleled. They won’t wrinkle paper when screening art prints, and they’re washable and dry-cleanable on fabrics after heat-setting or air-curing for at least 72 hours.

Cleanup is easy with just soap and water.

Color Chart note — Use this color chart as an approximation of the real color. If exact color matching is necessary, use actual samples of the materials.

I've been using the Speedball colors at nearly half the price of these inks but I thought I'd try something different. I bought three colors; white, red, and yellow. The red and yellow are perfect consistency, have great, solid application, and look nearly the endurance quality of plastisols with a softer hand.

But the white is too thick in the container. It feels as though I can make one, maybe two impressions before this dries in my screen. I'm hesitant to thin it too much, but I'm going to have to try. It prints amazing for single impressions with one applicatoin.

I like how this ink lays down on the paper. I prefer Jacquard process inks over Speedball brand. Their process colors seem more accurate. Magenta can be a pain to work with (likes to bleed/spread) but then again magenta usually is a pain. Jacquard Ink has held up well on items that have been out in the weather.

I used this screen printing ink on a tee shirt project using my Yudu screen printing machine. It worked just fine and came off beautifully. the orange is a nice bright pumpkin orange--not day glow, but a great balance of yellow and red. I used it on a good quality, heavier weight, white cotton/poly tee shirt. The ink heat-set just fine and I've washed it once. It comes through washing/drying great. I recommend.

The Jaquard Super Opaque White ink has fantastic coveragein just one pass and is completely opaque with 2 passes. After curing it is incredible flexible and I would compare it to plastisol. Great buy. Great ink.

I purchased this ink because I wanted a single formula that would work on both paper and fabric, and was also interested in the lightfastness & extended drying time.

Found the Jacquard inks to be very stiff and also fast-drying in the screen. On fabric, I could only print 2-3 times in quick succession before the screen became clogged with ink, requiring excessive scrubbing to remove (and extra time wasted on cleaning & drying screens). Open time was slightly better on paper. I tried adding water and extender to different batches, and nothing helped. This held true with multiple colors.

The coverage on fabric was poor, leaving blotchy and bare areas despite sufficient pressure and ink. On paper the coverage was almost TOO good: the layer of ink printed was so thick and stiff that it would hold marks from the screen being lifted off, even with minimal amounts of ink being applied. It is also very glossy when dry, something not noted in the product description.

I did not have any of these problems with the same screens when using the Speedball inks-- those printed beautifully on my fabric, and had a much longer open time (a run of 50+ prints on paper, could have kept going if I hadn't run out of paper!)

I have been using jacquard screen printing ink for a few years now and I couldn't be happier with the product. I am an independent screen printer, working out my garage, so this product works for me. It air dries, and I throw my tee shirts in the dryer for 8-10 minutes to heat-set everything. The shirts wash really well, for I've never had an issue with the paint. *I recommend adding water into the paint so it doesn't dry up.

Unlike other waterbased inks, I have issues with this ink staying sticky and never really completely air drying. If you plan on stacking you posters when you store a run, beware that this ink can stick to the poster stacked on top and cause blemishes when you pull them apart.

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